Liam Dolan

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Liam Dolan
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Liam Dolan in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
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Thesis A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) (1991)
Doctoral advisor R. Scott Poethig[1]
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Liam Dolan, FRS[2] is a botanist and academic. He is the Sherardian Professor of Botany in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[4][5][6][7]

Education

Dolan was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for genetic analysis of leaf development in the cotton plant Gossypium barbadense supervised by Scott Poethig.[1]

Career and research

Following his PhD, Dolan spent three years doing postdoctoral research at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. After 13 years as an independent project leader in Norwich, Dolan moved to Oxford as the Sherardian Professor of Botany in 2009.

Dolan's research aims to define genetic mechanisms that control the development of plants and determine how these mechanisms have changed since plants colonized the land 500 million years ago.[8][9][10][11][12] Dolan's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[13]

With Alison Mary Smith, George Coupland, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[14]

Awards and honours

Dolan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[15] His certificate of election reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Liam Dolan has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the development and evolution of land plant rooting systems. He was the first to define the precise cellular body plan of the Arabidopsis root and discovered the molecular genetic mechanism governing root hair cell differentiation. He demonstrated that this mechanism is ancient and was the first to discover the mechanism that controlled the development of the earliest land plant rooting systems that caused dramatic climate change over 400 million years ago. These pivotal discoveries illuminate our understanding of the interrelationships between the development of plants, their evolution and the Earth System.[2]

Dolan is also en elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)[when?] and was awarded the Presidents Medal of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in 2001.[3]

References

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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallists
  4. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  5. ↑ Liam Dolan's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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